HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Google Tensor

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Google Tensor

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Google Tensor . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1709 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (5.6W vs 9W)

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Google Tensor +161%

930661

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Google Tensor +555%

2170

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Google Tensor

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

Architecture

2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X1
2x 2.25 GHz – Cortex A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

5 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

5.6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP20

768 MHz

GPU frequency

848 MHz

12

Execution units

20

18

Shading units

64

8

Max size

12

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1709 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Tensor Processing Unit

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Tensor Processing Unit

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5300g

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

S5E9845

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Google Tensor

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